49
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

We are coming from here.

I'm not gonna lie, guys, neither say the opposite: there are people who play in their phones, I bet you do, so do I. I'm curious to know what do you play in your phones, what kind of "phone gamer" are you. Remember PDAs? The only games that things had were mineswipper, solitaire, chess, sudoku among others. All those are games that perfectly use the touch capabilities of its device, but now, we have more process capacity, and we still have one touch screen (I know, you can touch many points of the screen at the same time). I've always seen the screen of my phone as a one big button, so, I can't play any game that needs more than one touch to be played. I do limit my catalogue of games to those mentioned above, and I really like them. I love sudoku.

What do you play in your phone?

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top new old
[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Seconded, can be quite hard to pick up at first, but developing strategies and learning is soooo rewarding

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Same, it's a nice little game to pickup!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Simon Tatham's puzzle game collection.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'm like, "Hold up, how did, that's not even me
Like, I don't jerk off mobily"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

No implications here, I jerk off on the train while playing pornhub during my morning commute.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Chess, mostly

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Vampire Survivors and the SMT gacha game.

I have a few emulators but the touch screen controls are torture.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Foss sodoku apps from F-Droid

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Solitaire. That's it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Tons of stuff:

I have ~135 game apps plus some that are not exactly games but not exactly for productivity.

I have lemuroid and a pile of old console games.

I have a few sites for doing other little games, like daily Akari.

highlights:

Collapsus

Endless Sky

Pixel Dungeon

Luanti

Gladiabots

Mindustry

PartyHardGO

OpenTTD

Oxenfree

Revoltaire

The full set of games by Yiotro (a dev who puts it all out there for free, no ads, and lets you buy in if you like it)

Terraria

Underhand

Space Chem

A collection of puzzle games off of Fdroid just called puzzles. It has akari, sudoku, minesweeper, signpost, galaxies, towers, etc. All the games you might find buried in the back of a newspaper.

Stardew Valley

Tic-80

A pile of games from itch.io

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Pixel dungeon, oceanhorn, emulators...

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I never really have more than one game at a time. Right now it's Pokemon TCG Pocket.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

[email protected]

There are weekly trading threads

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I'm an old bastard and mostly play patience, sudoku, and cryptic crosswords on my phone. And maybe Bloons TD 6 to get the dailies if I'm away from home without my laptop.

On console I play mostly single-player RPGs but I also play PUBG. Tried that on mobile (how my kids play it) but fuck that shit!

Also, what the hell is going on with that cloud? Isn't it cold? What's for pudding? Why do policemen look so young these days? Everything was better when I was a youngster!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I play sudoku and chess puzzles.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I play Stardew Valley sometimes, but it's not as fun as the pc version.

I've had Backpack Brawl for a while, and Balatro too. Most other games I don't play for longer than a month or so. I did play Super Snail for a long time because I liked my clubmates, but the bird update killed it for me lol

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Mostly Lemmy, but I reinstalled Hoplite for a flight a while ago.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Pinball Deluxe Reloaded

It's a fun little time waster, I like that I don't have any ads on it either

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I waste my time on a website I found years ago on r/beermoney that pays pennies for installing and playing shitty games. Most of them are the garbage match 3 or dominoes or whatever. I figured out most of them still pay out even with my ad blocker on so I just dissociate with that instead of doom scrolling sometimes.

It's not the greatest thing ever and I know it's bad for privacy and capitalism and for many other reasons, but I've made like $600 on it in the last 3 years so that's been cool.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Basically just 2048. I have actually had a single 7x7 game going for literally months.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Solitaire and chess. Istg, I'm not a boomer. 24 here

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Stuff made by Yiotro is pretty good
Also got some jigsaw game but for a high privacy rating there are no premade images so i end up puzzling memes out of my library (for checking app security ratings i suggest using exodus)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago
  • Pinball Deluxe Reloaded: so good
  • lichess: so addicted
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Right now, not much.

I used to play Stardew Valley on my phone until I got bored of it. I was fun while it lasted.

Into The Breach is also good (get a modded apk so you don't need a subscription)

Slay the Spire, still have no idea what strategies work.

That's pretty much it, everything else is not really fun.

Unciv is an Honorable mention, but after a few turns and it gets dragged on for over a day, it just gets boring and I have no interest in continuing.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Once human. By far the best phone game by such a long way

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

ISEPS and Balatro.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Up until recently, I played Hearthstone every day for ten years. Some seasons were more fun than others, but ever since around November, I really haven't played it at all.

So, I downloaded Balatro around November. I really did not expect to get addicted to that game.

Right now, I'm kind of in between games, so I'm checking this list for ideas.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago
  • Blendoku (Color Puzzle)
  • Nonograms Katana (Pictograms puzzle)

I can also recommend the Cube Escape series (point and click escape)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Twenty and Balatro Sometimes Rummy or Blokus

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Eternal Card Game

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Nothing, and it's not because I don't play mobile games. I have a GrapheneOS phone that is so insulated from modern technology that it can barely run Uber/Lyft... so I keep games on my computers and tablets. Me having a bunch of gadgets (I have a Steam Deck and a dedicated tablet for mobile games) helps too

And... speaking of this topic. I am slightly competitive on a mobile gacha game at the moment; almost no serious players for these "mobile game" play on phone because screen too small, so they end up using the PC clients anyway...

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nothing, mobile games are either boring or littered with ads or pay to win

The screen is also way too small

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Polytopia. Like a very light Civ. No dark patterns or commercials.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I've got mini metro, something called shapez that I've not played, functional ear trainer which I'm classifying as a game cause it kinda is, and NYT games which is the only one I play regularly.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I have 378 hours on..

Calculator, Doom Scroll Edition

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I went to the page, I watched a few videos, and I still have no idea what this game is. (Besides a boob physics engine)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Here's the global site, sorry I posted the Japanese one earlier
https://umamusume.com/

By the way, all of the characters in Umamusume are anthropomorphized versions of real racehorses.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'll admit it, I play a lot of Gardenscapes and those Diner Dash games before that. But if you're looking for more of an action game feel, try Vampire Survivors. It's free and pretty well done for what it is. You just survive as long as you can as hordes of monsters come at you. You upgrade weapons as it gets harder and harder.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Mostly Pikmin Bloom right now. I like how it keeps me active, gets me out of the house, highlights public art in my city... and the pikmin are cute, of course. I appreciate that, while there are microtransactions, you can earn the coins easily through gameplay.

But previous favorites included:

  • Hoplite

  • Pixel Dungeon

  • Chrono Trigger mobile port

  • Battle for Polytopia

  • Merchant RPG

  • micRogue

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I used to have a PDA, even back in the late '90s I got as a hand-me-down. I used to play games on that and my first several phones. These days, though, if I'm using my phone it's never for gaming. If I have free time, I'm using a flashcard app to study or watching previously-downloaded youtube vids for downtime. I guess the one exception was when I was doing the prep for a colonoscopy, I fired up ALTTPR on a SNES emulator on tablet to kill time. That's the only time I can think of in the last probably 2 years I've played any games on anything mobile at all.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Global Thermonuclear War. And sometimes Chess.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I was playing Jedi Knight up to some time ago, now Eternal Darkness on the emulator (both with a cheap BT controller)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I uninstalled the only one I had because it skirted my ad skirting.

load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
49 points (94.5% liked)

Ask Lemmy

33336 readers
2040 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected]. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try [email protected] or [email protected]


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS